December 6, 2025 • 26 mins
It’s a big Sunday with Chris & Amy diving straight into Christmas chaos - from the kids counting down “six–seven weekend” to the stress of Bad Santa gift swaps and tea-towel-heavy presents. Amy opens up about end-of-year burnout and why every mum in Australia is one school drop-off away from rocking in a dark corner. Chris argues remote work and the anti-alcohol movement have broken young people, leading the pair into a debate about social isolation, courage juice, and memories made in shopping trolleys.
The show spirals into the new under-16 social media ban, how teens will cope without Snapchat, and why Amy is telling her kids the police will show up if they watch YouTube. Then it’s a wild detour into a 79-year-old UK aristocrat advertising for a wife (must not be a Scorpio, must run two castles, must provide two male heirs… casual). Finally, the Facebook Mums Group steps up with the week’s dilemma: Is posting your kid’s face online a problem? Amy weighs in, Chris threatens kidnappers, and we wrap with Lady Gaga ticket giveaways.
Chapters
00:00 – Christmas Weekend & Gift Swap Chaos
03:00 – Are We Too Soft? Kids, Remote Work & Alcohol Chat
06:30 – Amy’s End-of-Year Burnout
10:00 – “I Can Sing!” Viral Guy & Running to the Comments
12:45 – Under-16 Social Media Ban
17:45 – The UK Aristocrat Looking for a Wife
21:45 – Facebook Mums Group: Posting Kids Online
25:45 – Final Laughs & Gaga Tickets
Keywords
Chris & Amy podcast, KIIS FM, Amy Gerard burnout, Christmas stress mums, Bad Santa gifts, remote work debate, alcohol and socialising, social media under-16 ban, parenting chat Australia, Facebook Mums Group, viral comments segment, UK aristocrat ad for wife, Sunday radio show Australia, funny radio moments, Amy Gerard parenting.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Let's good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That remains to be seen Chris Page and Amy's Yards
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hey, good morning everyone, Abby Sunday, Amy Morning, Page seventh
of December.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know how I know this because all my kids
have been saying all weekend is six seven, because it's
the sixth and the seventh.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Have you seen the politicians have started doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh, don't.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Kick hen you're the key, you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You go?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh please?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, So eighteen sleeps until Christmas after this sixth seven weekend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, have you done all your Christmas shopping? Nope, I've
done most of mine. I am just the only thing
I have to get is my bad sand to present.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, bads, I'm guessing it's a different name, Chris, like
the mister Chris Kringle. Everyone buys a thing, it goes
in a mystery pile.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh so that's similar. We do a Chris Kringle like,
everyone gets designated one person and we spend one hundred
dollars on said person.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And that's like a decent gift.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, it's a nice one, like something that they want.
And then we do bad Santa, where everyone's meant to
buy a twenty thirty dollars gift. You wrap it up
and you it goes into the ring and then you
draw out a number and you want to be the
highest number because the first person has to pick a
gift yes and opens it. And then so by the
time you get round, like with our family, there's about
(01:46):
ten of us, so number ten they open their gift
and then they get to observe all the other gifts
and then pick yes. So because you can swap them.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But as you go like number three can steal number
two scrift as you're going through. We do the exact
same thing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but do you do that with Chris Kringle.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't know, it's just a different But do.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You have bad Santa like where you put add in
like really crappy presents.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, they're not deliberately crappy, but yeah, are only thirty dollars. Yes,
we had to put in a rule for ours no
cookbooks because we were just getting there and like five
out of the ten presents were like Matt Preston's cookbook.
Every year, because it's just you're in big do w
going I don't know what's twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, you know what, It's actually funny because what you
end up getting is things that are just boring but
you actually need, like so many tea towels or double
A batteries.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You go through them at an amazing radown.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, mine's rechargeable battery.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You're like the energizer bunny.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, this is Chris Page and Amy's ride.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The other day, I was watching an interview with a
guy called Professor Scott Galloway. I know this sounds very
high brown, doesn't it does? People are going up? Iuned
into the ABC on a show called Real Time with
Bill Maher. This professor is an expert on young people,
raising kids, particularly boys. But the point I'm about to
play from him applies to both boys and girls and
(03:08):
young people and how sanitized their lives have become. And yes,
they're safer than ever in a lot of ways, he
argues that it may have gone a bit too fast.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Second worst thing to happen to young people is remote work.
One and three. Relationships begin at work. This is where
you find friends, mentors, and mates, and especially young men
need the guardrails of a workplace. But in my view,
the worst thing that's happened to young people is the
anti alcohol movement. And my point is that the risk
to your twenty five year old liver are risk are
dwarfed by the risk of social isolation in some. Think
(03:39):
of all the amazing relationships you've had in your life,
and be honest, did alcohol play a role in some?
Get out, drink more and make a series of bad
decisions that might payoff.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That takes balls to come out and say that, because
God forbid you promote alcohol.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, the modern world has ruined both of his points there,
the first one being that workplace working remote relationships.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I actually I had a girlfriend who after COVID, she
was working from home five days out of the whole week,
and I watched, over the course of like two years,
her mental health absolutely decline to the point where I
intervened and I said, you have to get back into
the office. You're getting in there, there's your socializing, You're
having real face to face conversations with people. You're stepping
(04:25):
outside into the sunshine, getting a coffee, YadA, YadA, YadA.
She's now doing that mental health back up to where
it needs to.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Be big time, And I understand businesses need to go Hey,
you're not allowed to do it in the stationery cupboard
or at the Christmas party, But meeting people at work,
it is against the rules to date work people.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yes, it's actually against company policy. I did. I'm like,
I reckon. Over half of the people listening would have
met their partner at work.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And our producer met his wife through work.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
If you take that away, yeah, yeah, how are you
actually meeting people? Which leads to his second point there
that alcohol. Yes, is dangerous and bad for you when
used to excess, but it is a social lubricant absolutely,
and it makes you go up and talk to someone
you may not have spoken to start a conversation.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, it kind of gives you that courage, and it
kind of takes off the nerves that people lose their inhibitions.
I'm not saying go out and get yourself sloshed or
written off and blackout. That's not what I think I
would ever encourage my children to do. But I grew
up with you know, two parents who enjoy a wine.
(05:37):
When I think of wine, I think of them socializing.
It's always the two linked they were always at barbecues,
they were having dinner parties. My mum would go and
play a game of golf and then she'd finish up
and the girls would go out for a glass of
white wine at the end of it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The nineteenth Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's the two of them go so nicely together. And
you do you see kids these days they don't want
to drink and they want to stay at home and journal.
And I'm not saying they're bad either.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You can journal and go out and socialize.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Everything in moderation is good.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, I'm thinking about the knights walking when I
was eighteen, walking home from the pub with my mates,
pushing one of them down the hill in a shopping trolley.
I mean, but these other memories and the fun that
you hang on to, And I think Professor Galloway's argument
there is that it's more dangerous. Like I'd rather fall
out of a shopping trolley and have.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
A great story to tell.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Than be locked in my basement rotting away lonely. There's
got to be middle ground. There, be safe, but gotta
have some fun.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
This is crisp page and.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There's a lot of articles being written at the moment.
This one's out of Mom and me are saying end
of year burnout is a big thing, and it is
hitting everyone hard right now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And it's not just the kids that get it, you know.
They are always every prepairing and teacher says, oh, you know,
be kind with your kids because there's been a long
school year.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What handball? I mean, how did they.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Get burned eating their pre made lunches.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, we're burnt out.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, I am absolute lutely burnt out. I was talking
on my stories on Instagram about how exhausted I feel.
I was sitting in the car i'd done school drop off,
I was still in my pajamas, and I was just saying,
December is just so overwhelming. I want to say, especially
for the moms.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We're getting ready for Christmas, and that starts early. Well,
it starts with the sales, organizing all the presents.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I feel like I need a holiday after the Black
Friday sales. Yeah, I feel like there aren't enough hours
in the day. At the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your life exhausts me on Instagram when I look at
it and go, oh my god, You've done five things
today and I've done two sudokus.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
At best, and do you feel.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Exhausted just from your life. Yes, yes, no, I look,
look my life's for Joel. I'm not an end of
you burnout guy. But I can tell you I used
to do radio five days a week, breakfast radio. So
you're up at four o'clock in the morning five days
a week, and you know, we come in and go,
(08:08):
all right, what are we going to talk about today?
And it's pretty easy doing it twice a week, Saturday
and Sunday. We got enough to talk about on a
slow newsday. When you're doing that shit.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Five like four hours, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We did three, Kyl and Jack do four hours. That's
what ten million dollars a year by Yeah, I wasn't
on that, but everyone goes, oh my god. Breakfast radio people,
they get the longest holidays, they get like as much
as teachers. I got to tell you, the burnout is real.
I know it's not a hard job. I know there
are people digging minds for twelve hours a day. That's nurses. Yeah,
(08:39):
I know that's harder. But the mental drain, oh yeah,
of going oh my god, it's a slow newsday, what
the heck? And having to be like up on going hey,
everyone what a wonderful day it is. I wish I
was dead.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, it's a real thing, and I just think December.
It's hard because I feel like women. I am going
to lead with women and keep going with that. I
feel like we are doing it all. A lot of
women have careers and they have kids, but then they're
also juggling, you know, Christmas presents and arranging all the
family to get togethers and stuff like that. But most importantly,
(09:12):
we want to be this like festive, cheery ho ho ho,
like happy, go lucky version of ourselves when realistically we
are all dying inside. Yeah, so the end of you
burnout is real. If you feel like you want to
rock in a dark corner, I just know that you
are not alone. All of us women are feeling the
(09:32):
same way. I don't know about Chris because he only
works two days a week in gardens for the rest.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
So I actually do agree with you, though, like usually
I have a smart ass thing to say that it's
negative about women. We get a lot of letters about it. Yes,
but I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah Georgia, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I should be nicer than Georgia. People are going, what
does he do to it?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oper A massage. Oh okay, yeah, send her for one
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Send her to one. Yeah, you think she gets a
nice massage and everyone at home gets an hour a
piece and quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
This is Chris Page and Amy's Ride Taylor's.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
If there's a good singer, he is. Everyone thinks they
can sing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can sing in the shower. Yeah, and my songs
there sound really good in.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The shower, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I was actually convinced that I was going to be
a good singer because of the way I sung in
the shower, and then I recorded myself singing once out
of the shower, and I was like, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Good self awareness. All hot girls think they'd be a
good singer because they're like, oh look I look like
Sabrina Carpenter. It put me that hard, and you go,
there's nothing better than someone who doesn't realize they can't sing,
thinks they can, and decides I'm going to hit Instagram
and share this with the world. Yeah, this fellow has
no Benson Boone on.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's not Benson Boone.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
No, he's singing Benson Boon. Benson Boone's actually a really
good song. I don't know this guy's name. What is it.
This is Michael. Okay, Michael. We're going to run to
the comments straight after this because they are fantastic. But
here's some of Michael's work that I created, this storm
of hilarious common Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Aren't you a needs?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You gudon.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Sick? These beautiful needs have goa.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And you can't see the video, but he's really giving
it to it. He thinks he's pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Shit, he just punking everyone.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, he's for real. His caption on it is the
moment I realized I could sing on camera.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I actually reckon. He's taking the piece, But I can
imagine how much the comments just popped off.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Let's go to the comments. His confidence was sky high
until he started reading. Mate, you just need to work
a little bit on your pitch control. But other than that,
it was shit. Your next cover should be your mouth, bro.
Hit all the notes except the right ones. Ignore the
positive comments. Another victory for the deaf. Wow, when are
(12:03):
you unavailable?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Talent chases you, but you're faster. I feel like with
more practice you'll actually get worse. You've got a hidden talent,
Please keep it hidden. Why are most of the comments
here negative? Why not all of them? And let's collaborate.
I hate making good videos anyway. Look, trolling's bad. Trolling's bad.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The Internet is a savage place, and if you're confident
enough to put yourself out there, you have to expect
that things can go either way. I don't want to
say those comments are okay, but.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They are okay because he put himself out there.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I know, but trolling is never okay. But some
of them are quite funny.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The trolling in this trolling correct.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, yes, this is.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Cris Page and Amy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You're under sixteen. Enjoy your Twitter, Instagram, three day Facebook, Yeah, TikTok, Snapchat,
all of it is going. You've got three days left.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm against it. But and I'm not sorry. I'm not
saying I love little kids on social media. I'm saying
parents should parent the kids. Don't tell me what my
kids can and can't do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think the thing for me is I am using
it as leverage and kind of basically saying for my
kids especially, I'm like, from the tenth of December, YouTube's gone.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And you can blame elbow, so you're not the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, exactly right. So it's basically I mean I've gone
a step further and say that if they watch it,
the police will show up. Oh yeah, you're going to
be a real like fear mongering for my children.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, speaking with fear mongering, one of the big things
that people talk about is oh, you're going to need
a digital ID because and this is true, this isn't
a conspiracy theory. Don't look at me like that. Twelve
thousand people were arrested in the UK last year for
social media posts.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Twelve thousand people.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That's not what for social media posts deemed to be offensive?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Are they terrorist posts or no?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, no, they're like anti immigration things like that. I'm
not defending all of the posts, but I will defend
someone's right to say what they think.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I've never heard that they assure us.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's not going to be the digital ID here the
Communications Minister being interviewed during the week, She says it's
on the social media companies. It's their responsibility and they
have ways of figuring out how old you are. For example,
if you've been on Facebook since two thousand and five,
you're not going to be under sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I would love to know how you know. Platforms
like meta and Twitter and Snapchat and all these things.
How are they verifying somebody's age?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It just says put in your day to birth right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, of course. And it's like any site you go
to Dan Murphy's, Oh are you over eighteen? Anyone who
wants to buy stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yes, I believe they can. They'll go through what you
post about who you're talking to as well, like if
you've spent the last years talking exclusively to fourteen year
olds online, either your fourteen yeah, or bigger issues there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think it's going to be really helpful for parents
with younger kids. It's going to make a big impact
for those, you know, nine, ten, eleven, twelve year olds.
I think it will be hard for fifteen year olds.
I do sympathize with parents because I know for a
fact I've got friends who have teenage kids and it's
how they communicate. So they all talk on Snapchat, or
they all share stuff on Instagram and Facebook, or maybe
(15:35):
not Facebook, but Instagram and Snapchat are like their number
one ways of communicating with each other.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
We're going to make texting great again.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well maybe we'll make texting great or I think a
lot of kids are going to move over to WhatsApp,
which I mean, I think that's great. I use WhatsApp.
I actually had to put out a post just helping
Meta get some key messaging out across on Friday for
these parents to kind of chat with their kids who
are going to lose access to their accounts.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
What is the key messaging?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, they basically said, Instagram, like for me as well,
is a place to share really nice photos and so
a lot of kids are going to have really nice
memories on there. They've got reels, photos, birthdays, all that
kind of stuff. What you should do is you should
download them so you can there's a download button that's
really easy. You can download all your photos or your
reels and they go straight into your camera roll. So
(16:26):
if they are nice memories that you want, download them.
And then they say, obviously, go and make sure that
your date of birth marries up to your birth certificate.
And then you can also put contact details in so
that the day you do turn sixteen, Meta will contact
you and you will have access to your accounting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Wait, Facebook are telling kids to go in and check
their date of birth is correct? Yes, wink wink. I mean,
isn't that sort of telling them how to get around it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, not really. They're just saying make sure you do
the right thing, because I'm sure that they know that
there are a lot of people who don't have the
correct date of birth in there. Yeah, I still agree
that it's a step in the right direction, and I
for one, feel like it's going to be really beneficial
for me with my kids ages. I know you're against.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It, but I think it's going to be one of
those things that is very tough on short term on
the kids that are affected by it. As it's coming
in exactly, I think it might be a bit rough. Yeah,
maybe in ten years time when it's the norm and
you sort of from when you're five years old. You know,
it's like drinking and smoking. It just doesn't happen until
you're a certain age. But then again, it does, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I still think that there are parents who need to
really step up and be responsible and do the right
thing here, But I know for a fact that there'll
be heaps of parents who don't care.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
One thing I laughed at during the week was apparently
a whole bunch of kids are going to go to
LinkedIn because it's not affected by the band, Because it's
like boring things. Isn't that funny? It's all those wankers
with their resumes jobs just keeps just kids.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, I've been working with I've been at will Worst
for six months. Yeah. Yeah. Ultimately, I just think what
they're trying to enforce is for children to be kids.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I just feel like it's people going, oh, kids should
be like we were when a little like just pushing
along a hula hoop with a stick in the exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
All right, Wednesday, you got to Wednesday kids. This is
Chris Page and Amy to ride single ladies, got one
for you. He's over in the UK, but it could
be worth traveling for this for this bachelor. Okay, he's
single and ready to mingle. Seventy nine year old aristocrat.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Don't tell me he's put out a post. Yeah, questing
a wife.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's like an ad.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Put it in the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, he's seventy nine, so it probably is a personal
in the newspaper, but put it on social media as well.
Sir Benjamin's Slade. That's a good name, it is. It
sounds like a spy or something. Yeah, Sir Benjamin Slade,
seventy nine wants a wife. He's willing to offer fifty
thousand pounds a year as like an allowance. I guess, wow,
(19:02):
plus bonuses.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It sounds like he's looking for an employee.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It sounds like he wants a frosty to come and
live with him. Actually, what do you have to do? Okay, okay,
your duty. The stipulations are you must be at least
twenty years younger than he is.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, it's fifty nine. That's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, for a seventy nine year old billionaire.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's actually not that outrageous sixty yet.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Okay. His other requirements for this lucky lady. Cannot be
a scorpio.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh my gosh, so can relate. My husband's a scorpio.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
What a scorpio's what's his problem with scorpios?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, they're just a bit mysterious and apparently nymphos as well.
Oh yeah, I would have thought he would have been
keen for that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, how's she going to get the bonuses?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is so funny. Of all the star signs, scorpios
do get a bad rap.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Okay, cannot be a scorpio. He's got a list. Don't worry.
Here we go. Cannot read the Guardian newspaper. Yeap, fair enough. Well,
you know, so we know where he's politics. It must
hold a shotgun license.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Wow, these are so obscure.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Must be taller than five foot six inches.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Okay, I make the come.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, sure, must be able to run two castles.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What does run a castle look like like?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
In downtown Abbey? You know there's like a manager of
the house, but he'd have staff, So really you're just
going to be bossing around Butler's delegating. Yeah, yeah, so
that's easy. I love this one. I think you can
read between the lines on this one. Cannot come from
countries beginning with the letter I, island or have green
in their flag Island. Ah, yeah, I don't know that. Yeah, India, Iran, Indonesia.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Hang on, do they all have green in their flag?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
India does?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Okay, wow, I reckon. He's actually put no Indians and
someone's gone, sir, you can't put that in your ad.
He's gone, all right, nothing with a country starting with eye,
Ye'll get me around it. And the final one, no, biggie,
you have to provide him with two male heirs.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, so he says twenty years he's junior, but obviously,
fifty nine years old is probably not going to.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Cut over realistically, he wants a thirty year old woman.
But how are you guaranteeing two boys?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Are you going to keep going?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You're going to just keep going to give him the
two male heirs.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Hope this guy dies. Really, The funny thing is, I'm
sure he's going to get applicants he will like even
just running two castles. That's probably appealing to a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Living in a castle. It's every little princess's dream, isn't it.
That could make a Disney movie about this. Yeah, about
an old man looking for a prostitute. Good luck, sir, Benjamin,
Good luck go well, sir. We'll follow this story your
quest for love. There's a good feel good.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Story for there's a lot of love.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
This is Chris Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
When we want to know what's going on in parents'
lives around Australia, the number one place to go is
the secret Society of the Facebook mums group.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
What's the big issue in the Facebook mums groups?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Is it bad to post photos of my kid? A
friend admitted she's obsessed with sharing those adorable milestone picks
until strangers start scrolling and suddenly she's worrying about privacy
and whether her child's photos are feeding creepy AI databases.
Other moms have called it over sharaning.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Over sharenting good sure, but she.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Says she just wants to share the joy of raising
a kid, the laughs, the milestones. I'm so torn should
we be sharing our kids' faces on social This is
with them for life. So I'm leaning towards no big issue.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Getting a digital footprint can never totally be erased, can it.
And there's a lot of creepy stuff out there with that,
the deep fakes, and there's a lot of cases there
people are uploading someone they knows face to something and
that's putting them in all sorts of But.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Also, if you're gonna think, and I know how some
parents think you should maybe not let your kid ever
out of sight, then because they're going to go to
guess what, the school's going to take photos with them,
and they're going to go to other kids' birthdays and
they're going to have photos there. And you can control
what you put on your page, but you probably can't
control what other people put on theirs. Also, here's my
(23:22):
two cents. If you are so concerned, make sure your
page is on private, make sure the only people that
you've allowed in are friends that you know and can verify,
and then share too your little hearts content.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So you're you're pretty open on your Insta and you've
got a lot. You've got what about one hundred and
fifty thousand followers, and you post.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't share as much anymore, but when they were little,
I absolutely used to share my.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Kids and you never blurred out their faces or anything.
I see that sometimes some particularly high profile people going, oh,
look here, I'm with my daughter at the zoo and
they've put like an a emoji over their face, and
you're what's the what's the point?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I would just not post.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You're just going to look at me. I took my
kid to the zoo on my great mum.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're ruining a good photo. Either send it in a
family group chat or to your friends, or don't post
it if you're so concerned about them having a digital footprint.
I wouldn't be putting the photo online period, because you
putting an emoji on that kid's face. Guess what, there's
that much technology these days. They can just screenshot the
photo and take the emoji off. Yeah, so if you're
really concerned, just don't post it at all.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
The only thing I ever took off because I kiss
posted a video of Henry and Oscar my two sons
the other week, and I was fine with that. The
only thing I did take out I didn't put their
school uniforms. Yes, I don't do that either, with what
school they go to. I don't know what I've just
I just see people doing that, blurring up the school
logo on the thing. I don't even know why I
did it. If someone really wants to find out what
(24:48):
school Henry and Oscar go to, it's not going to
be that difficult. I've got no money. By the way, do.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Not don't keep that no ransom that waid.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'll go full mill Gibson. I'll just go on TV going.
You're not going to see a cent.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Look. I think the thing is there's all this fear
bongering around online, and I know it's legit, and there's
horrible people that live in the world, but there's horrible
people that live outside of screens as well. You know,
if you think that way and you're that negatively mindset,
then parenting is going to be a terrifying ride for you.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You can't wrap them in cotton wool, even digital cotton wool.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, but each to their own. Like what I said,
if this mum is concerned, put your thing on private,
make sure there's you've only got forty followers and you
know all of them, and then that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
So we're going to say stress less, babe, Just.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Post them stress less and if it makes you feel better,
don't post them at all.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Just don't post the many they're annoying. The other issue,
because that's you know how your kids are really special?
A little billy he's eating his first peas.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Issue.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Dog people are worse. They're dogs, little snook. Shut up,
speaking of little monsters. If you want to take all
your little monster friends along, we'in a whole row of
Lady Garga tickets. We've got them to win on Kiss.
The winning starts next and we will see you next
week Saturday, eight am.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Have a good one
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yes, sir, let's talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Let's good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That remains to be seen Chris Page and Amy's Yards
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hey, good morning everyone, Abby Sunday, Amy Morning, Page seventh
of December.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You know how I know this because all my kids
have been saying all weekend is six seven, because it's
the sixth and the seventh.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Have you seen the politicians have started doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Oh, don't.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Kick hen you're the key, you're doing it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You go?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh please?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, So eighteen sleeps until Christmas after this sixth seven weekend?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, have you done all your Christmas shopping? Nope, I've
done most of mine. I am just the only thing
I have to get is my bad sand to present.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Okay, bads, I'm guessing it's a different name, Chris, like
the mister Chris Kringle. Everyone buys a thing, it goes
in a mystery pile.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh so that's similar. We do a Chris Kringle like,
everyone gets designated one person and we spend one hundred
dollars on said person.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And that's like a decent gift.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, it's a nice one, like something that they want.
And then we do bad Santa, where everyone's meant to
buy a twenty thirty dollars gift. You wrap it up
and you it goes into the ring and then you
draw out a number and you want to be the
highest number because the first person has to pick a
gift yes and opens it. And then so by the
time you get round, like with our family, there's about
(01:46):
ten of us, so number ten they open their gift
and then they get to observe all the other gifts
and then pick yes. So because you can swap them.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
But as you go like number three can steal number
two scrift as you're going through. We do the exact
same thing.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but do you do that with Chris Kringle.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't know, it's just a different But do.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You have bad Santa like where you put add in
like really crappy presents.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, they're not deliberately crappy, but yeah, are only thirty dollars. Yes,
we had to put in a rule for ours no
cookbooks because we were just getting there and like five
out of the ten presents were like Matt Preston's cookbook.
Every year, because it's just you're in big do w
going I don't know what's twenty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, you know what, It's actually funny because what you
end up getting is things that are just boring but
you actually need, like so many tea towels or double
A batteries.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You go through them at an amazing radown.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Hey, mine's rechargeable battery.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
You're like the energizer bunny.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, this is Chris Page and Amy's ride.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The other day, I was watching an interview with a
guy called Professor Scott Galloway. I know this sounds very
high brown, doesn't it does? People are going up? Iuned
into the ABC on a show called Real Time with
Bill Maher. This professor is an expert on young people,
raising kids, particularly boys. But the point I'm about to
play from him applies to both boys and girls and
(03:08):
young people and how sanitized their lives have become. And yes,
they're safer than ever in a lot of ways, he
argues that it may have gone a bit too fast.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Second worst thing to happen to young people is remote work.
One and three. Relationships begin at work. This is where
you find friends, mentors, and mates, and especially young men
need the guardrails of a workplace. But in my view,
the worst thing that's happened to young people is the
anti alcohol movement. And my point is that the risk
to your twenty five year old liver are risk are
dwarfed by the risk of social isolation in some. Think
(03:39):
of all the amazing relationships you've had in your life,
and be honest, did alcohol play a role in some?
Get out, drink more and make a series of bad
decisions that might payoff.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That takes balls to come out and say that, because
God forbid you promote alcohol.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, the modern world has ruined both of his points there,
the first one being that workplace working remote relationships.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I actually I had a girlfriend who after COVID, she
was working from home five days out of the whole week,
and I watched, over the course of like two years,
her mental health absolutely decline to the point where I
intervened and I said, you have to get back into
the office. You're getting in there, there's your socializing, You're
having real face to face conversations with people. You're stepping
(04:25):
outside into the sunshine, getting a coffee, YadA, YadA, YadA.
She's now doing that mental health back up to where
it needs to.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Be big time, And I understand businesses need to go Hey,
you're not allowed to do it in the stationery cupboard
or at the Christmas party, But meeting people at work,
it is against the rules to date work people.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yes, it's actually against company policy. I did. I'm like,
I reckon. Over half of the people listening would have
met their partner at work.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And our producer met his wife through work.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
If you take that away, yeah, yeah, how are you
actually meeting people? Which leads to his second point there
that alcohol. Yes, is dangerous and bad for you when
used to excess, but it is a social lubricant absolutely,
and it makes you go up and talk to someone
you may not have spoken to start a conversation.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, it kind of gives you that courage, and it
kind of takes off the nerves that people lose their inhibitions.
I'm not saying go out and get yourself sloshed or
written off and blackout. That's not what I think I
would ever encourage my children to do. But I grew
up with you know, two parents who enjoy a wine.
(05:37):
When I think of wine, I think of them socializing.
It's always the two linked they were always at barbecues,
they were having dinner parties. My mum would go and
play a game of golf and then she'd finish up
and the girls would go out for a glass of
white wine at the end of it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The nineteenth Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's the two of them go so nicely together. And
you do you see kids these days they don't want
to drink and they want to stay at home and journal.
And I'm not saying they're bad either.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You can journal and go out and socialize.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Everything in moderation is good.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I mean, I'm thinking about the knights walking when I
was eighteen, walking home from the pub with my mates,
pushing one of them down the hill in a shopping trolley.
I mean, but these other memories and the fun that
you hang on to, And I think Professor Galloway's argument
there is that it's more dangerous. Like I'd rather fall
out of a shopping trolley and have.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
A great story to tell.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Than be locked in my basement rotting away lonely. There's
got to be middle ground. There, be safe, but gotta
have some fun.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
This is crisp page and.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
There's a lot of articles being written at the moment.
This one's out of Mom and me are saying end
of year burnout is a big thing, and it is
hitting everyone hard right now.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And it's not just the kids that get it, you know.
They are always every prepairing and teacher says, oh, you know,
be kind with your kids because there's been a long
school year.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What handball? I mean, how did they.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Get burned eating their pre made lunches.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, we're burnt out.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, I am absolute lutely burnt out. I was talking
on my stories on Instagram about how exhausted I feel.
I was sitting in the car i'd done school drop off,
I was still in my pajamas, and I was just saying,
December is just so overwhelming. I want to say, especially
for the moms.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We're getting ready for Christmas, and that starts early. Well,
it starts with the sales, organizing all the presents.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I feel like I need a holiday after the Black
Friday sales. Yeah, I feel like there aren't enough hours
in the day. At the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your life exhausts me on Instagram when I look at
it and go, oh my god, You've done five things
today and I've done two sudokus.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
At best, and do you feel.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Exhausted just from your life. Yes, yes, no, I look,
look my life's for Joel. I'm not an end of
you burnout guy. But I can tell you I used
to do radio five days a week, breakfast radio. So
you're up at four o'clock in the morning five days
a week, and you know, we come in and go,
(08:08):
all right, what are we going to talk about today?
And it's pretty easy doing it twice a week, Saturday
and Sunday. We got enough to talk about on a
slow newsday. When you're doing that shit.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Five like four hours, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
We did three, Kyl and Jack do four hours. That's
what ten million dollars a year by Yeah, I wasn't
on that, but everyone goes, oh my god. Breakfast radio people,
they get the longest holidays, they get like as much
as teachers. I got to tell you, the burnout is real.
I know it's not a hard job. I know there
are people digging minds for twelve hours a day. That's nurses. Yeah,
(08:39):
I know that's harder. But the mental drain, oh yeah,
of going oh my god, it's a slow newsday, what
the heck? And having to be like up on going hey,
everyone what a wonderful day it is. I wish I
was dead.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, it's a real thing, and I just think December.
It's hard because I feel like women. I am going
to lead with women and keep going with that. I
feel like we are doing it all. A lot of
women have careers and they have kids, but then they're
also juggling, you know, Christmas presents and arranging all the
family to get togethers and stuff like that. But most importantly,
(09:12):
we want to be this like festive, cheery ho ho ho,
like happy, go lucky version of ourselves when realistically we
are all dying inside. Yeah, so the end of you
burnout is real. If you feel like you want to
rock in a dark corner, I just know that you
are not alone. All of us women are feeling the
(09:32):
same way. I don't know about Chris because he only
works two days a week in gardens for the rest.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
So I actually do agree with you, though, like usually
I have a smart ass thing to say that it's
negative about women. We get a lot of letters about it. Yes,
but I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah Georgia, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I should be nicer than Georgia. People are going, what
does he do to it?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Oper A massage. Oh okay, yeah, send her for one
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Send her to one. Yeah, you think she gets a
nice massage and everyone at home gets an hour a
piece and quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
This is Chris Page and Amy's Ride Taylor's.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
If there's a good singer, he is. Everyone thinks they
can sing.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can sing in the shower. Yeah, and my songs
there sound really good in.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The shower, and that's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I was actually convinced that I was going to be
a good singer because of the way I sung in
the shower, and then I recorded myself singing once out
of the shower, and I was like, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Good self awareness. All hot girls think they'd be a
good singer because they're like, oh look I look like
Sabrina Carpenter. It put me that hard, and you go,
there's nothing better than someone who doesn't realize they can't sing,
thinks they can, and decides I'm going to hit Instagram
and share this with the world. Yeah, this fellow has
no Benson Boone on.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's not Benson Boone.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
No, he's singing Benson Boon. Benson Boone's actually a really
good song. I don't know this guy's name. What is it.
This is Michael. Okay, Michael. We're going to run to
the comments straight after this because they are fantastic. But
here's some of Michael's work that I created, this storm
of hilarious common Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Aren't you a needs?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
You gudon.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Sick? These beautiful needs have goa.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And you can't see the video, but he's really giving
it to it. He thinks he's pretty hot.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Shit, he just punking everyone.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, he's for real. His caption on it is the
moment I realized I could sing on camera.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I actually reckon. He's taking the piece, But I can
imagine how much the comments just popped off.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Let's go to the comments. His confidence was sky high
until he started reading. Mate, you just need to work
a little bit on your pitch control. But other than that,
it was shit. Your next cover should be your mouth, bro.
Hit all the notes except the right ones. Ignore the
positive comments. Another victory for the deaf. Wow, when are
(12:03):
you unavailable?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Talent chases you, but you're faster. I feel like with
more practice you'll actually get worse. You've got a hidden talent,
Please keep it hidden. Why are most of the comments
here negative? Why not all of them? And let's collaborate.
I hate making good videos anyway. Look, trolling's bad. Trolling's bad.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The Internet is a savage place, and if you're confident
enough to put yourself out there, you have to expect
that things can go either way. I don't want to
say those comments are okay, but.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
They are okay because he put himself out there.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, I know, but trolling is never okay. But some
of them are quite funny.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The trolling in this trolling correct.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, yes, this is.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Cris Page and Amy.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You're under sixteen. Enjoy your Twitter, Instagram, three day Facebook, Yeah, TikTok, Snapchat,
all of it is going. You've got three days left.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But I'm all for it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm against it. But and I'm not sorry. I'm not
saying I love little kids on social media. I'm saying
parents should parent the kids. Don't tell me what my
kids can and can't do.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I think the thing for me is I am using
it as leverage and kind of basically saying for my
kids especially, I'm like, from the tenth of December, YouTube's gone.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And you can blame elbow, so you're not the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, exactly right. So it's basically I mean I've gone
a step further and say that if they watch it,
the police will show up. Oh yeah, you're going to
be a real like fear mongering for my children.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, speaking with fear mongering, one of the big things
that people talk about is oh, you're going to need
a digital ID because and this is true, this isn't
a conspiracy theory. Don't look at me like that. Twelve
thousand people were arrested in the UK last year for
social media posts.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Twelve thousand people.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That's not what for social media posts deemed to be offensive?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Are they terrorist posts or no?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, no, they're like anti immigration things like that. I'm
not defending all of the posts, but I will defend
someone's right to say what they think.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I've never heard that they assure us.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
There's not going to be the digital ID here the
Communications Minister being interviewed during the week, She says it's
on the social media companies. It's their responsibility and they
have ways of figuring out how old you are. For example,
if you've been on Facebook since two thousand and five,
you're not going to be under sixteen.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, I would love to know how you know. Platforms
like meta and Twitter and Snapchat and all these things.
How are they verifying somebody's age?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It just says put in your day to birth right.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, of course. And it's like any site you go
to Dan Murphy's, Oh are you over eighteen? Anyone who
wants to buy stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yes, I believe they can. They'll go through what you
post about who you're talking to as well, like if
you've spent the last years talking exclusively to fourteen year
olds online, either your fourteen yeah, or bigger issues there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I think it's going to be really helpful for parents
with younger kids. It's going to make a big impact
for those, you know, nine, ten, eleven, twelve year olds.
I think it will be hard for fifteen year olds.
I do sympathize with parents because I know for a
fact I've got friends who have teenage kids and it's
how they communicate. So they all talk on Snapchat, or
they all share stuff on Instagram and Facebook, or maybe
(15:35):
not Facebook, but Instagram and Snapchat are like their number
one ways of communicating with each other.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
We're going to make texting great again.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well maybe we'll make texting great or I think a
lot of kids are going to move over to WhatsApp,
which I mean, I think that's great. I use WhatsApp.
I actually had to put out a post just helping
Meta get some key messaging out across on Friday for
these parents to kind of chat with their kids who
are going to lose access to their accounts.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
What is the key messaging?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, they basically said, Instagram, like for me as well,
is a place to share really nice photos and so
a lot of kids are going to have really nice
memories on there. They've got reels, photos, birthdays, all that
kind of stuff. What you should do is you should
download them so you can there's a download button that's
really easy. You can download all your photos or your
reels and they go straight into your camera roll. So
(16:26):
if they are nice memories that you want, download them.
And then they say, obviously, go and make sure that
your date of birth marries up to your birth certificate.
And then you can also put contact details in so
that the day you do turn sixteen, Meta will contact
you and you will have access to your accounting.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Wait, Facebook are telling kids to go in and check
their date of birth is correct? Yes, wink wink. I mean,
isn't that sort of telling them how to get around it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Well, not really. They're just saying make sure you do
the right thing, because I'm sure that they know that
there are a lot of people who don't have the
correct date of birth in there. Yeah, I still agree
that it's a step in the right direction, and I
for one, feel like it's going to be really beneficial
for me with my kids ages. I know you're against.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It, but I think it's going to be one of
those things that is very tough on short term on
the kids that are affected by it. As it's coming
in exactly, I think it might be a bit rough. Yeah,
maybe in ten years time when it's the norm and
you sort of from when you're five years old. You know,
it's like drinking and smoking. It just doesn't happen until
you're a certain age. But then again, it does, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I still think that there are parents who need to
really step up and be responsible and do the right
thing here, But I know for a fact that there'll
be heaps of parents who don't care.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
One thing I laughed at during the week was apparently
a whole bunch of kids are going to go to
LinkedIn because it's not affected by the band, Because it's
like boring things. Isn't that funny? It's all those wankers
with their resumes jobs just keeps just kids.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, I've been working with I've been at will Worst
for six months. Yeah. Yeah. Ultimately, I just think what
they're trying to enforce is for children to be kids.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I just feel like it's people going, oh, kids should
be like we were when a little like just pushing
along a hula hoop with a stick in the exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
All right, Wednesday, you got to Wednesday kids. This is
Chris Page and Amy to ride single ladies, got one
for you. He's over in the UK, but it could
be worth traveling for this for this bachelor. Okay, he's
single and ready to mingle. Seventy nine year old aristocrat.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Don't tell me he's put out a post. Yeah, questing
a wife.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's like an ad.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Put it in the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Well, he's seventy nine, so it probably is a personal
in the newspaper, but put it on social media as well.
Sir Benjamin's Slade. That's a good name, it is. It
sounds like a spy or something. Yeah, Sir Benjamin Slade,
seventy nine wants a wife. He's willing to offer fifty
thousand pounds a year as like an allowance. I guess, wow,
(19:02):
plus bonuses.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It sounds like he's looking for an employee.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It sounds like he wants a frosty to come and
live with him. Actually, what do you have to do? Okay, okay,
your duty. The stipulations are you must be at least
twenty years younger than he is.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, it's fifty nine. That's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, for a seventy nine year old billionaire.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's actually not that outrageous sixty yet.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Okay. His other requirements for this lucky lady. Cannot be
a scorpio.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh my gosh, so can relate. My husband's a scorpio.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
What a scorpio's what's his problem with scorpios?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, they're just a bit mysterious and apparently nymphos as well.
Oh yeah, I would have thought he would have been
keen for that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, how's she going to get the bonuses?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is so funny. Of all the star signs, scorpios
do get a bad rap.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Okay, cannot be a scorpio. He's got a list. Don't worry.
Here we go. Cannot read the Guardian newspaper. Yeap, fair enough. Well,
you know, so we know where he's politics. It must
hold a shotgun license.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Wow, these are so obscure.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Must be taller than five foot six inches.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Okay, I make the come.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, sure, must be able to run two castles.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What does run a castle look like like?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
In downtown Abbey? You know there's like a manager of
the house, but he'd have staff, So really you're just
going to be bossing around Butler's delegating. Yeah, yeah, so
that's easy. I love this one. I think you can
read between the lines on this one. Cannot come from
countries beginning with the letter I, island or have green
in their flag Island. Ah, yeah, I don't know that. Yeah, India, Iran, Indonesia.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Hang on, do they all have green in their flag?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
India does?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Okay, wow, I reckon. He's actually put no Indians and
someone's gone, sir, you can't put that in your ad.
He's gone, all right, nothing with a country starting with eye,
Ye'll get me around it. And the final one, no, biggie,
you have to provide him with two male heirs.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yeah, so he says twenty years he's junior, but obviously,
fifty nine years old is probably not going to.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Cut over realistically, he wants a thirty year old woman.
But how are you guaranteeing two boys?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Are you going to keep going?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Now?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You're going to just keep going to give him the
two male heirs.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Hope this guy dies. Really, The funny thing is, I'm
sure he's going to get applicants he will like even
just running two castles. That's probably appealing to a lot
of people.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Living in a castle. It's every little princess's dream, isn't it.
That could make a Disney movie about this. Yeah, about
an old man looking for a prostitute. Good luck, sir, Benjamin,
Good luck go well, sir. We'll follow this story your
quest for love. There's a good feel good.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Story for there's a lot of love.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
This is Chris Page and Amy Gerard.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
When we want to know what's going on in parents'
lives around Australia, the number one place to go is
the secret Society of the Facebook mums group.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
What's the big issue in the Facebook mums groups?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Is it bad to post photos of my kid? A
friend admitted she's obsessed with sharing those adorable milestone picks
until strangers start scrolling and suddenly she's worrying about privacy
and whether her child's photos are feeding creepy AI databases.
Other moms have called it over sharaning.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Over sharenting good sure, but she.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Says she just wants to share the joy of raising
a kid, the laughs, the milestones. I'm so torn should
we be sharing our kids' faces on social This is
with them for life. So I'm leaning towards no big issue.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Getting a digital footprint can never totally be erased, can it.
And there's a lot of creepy stuff out there with that,
the deep fakes, and there's a lot of cases there
people are uploading someone they knows face to something and
that's putting them in all sorts of But.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Also, if you're gonna think, and I know how some
parents think you should maybe not let your kid ever
out of sight, then because they're going to go to
guess what, the school's going to take photos with them,
and they're going to go to other kids' birthdays and
they're going to have photos there. And you can control
what you put on your page, but you probably can't
control what other people put on theirs. Also, here's my
(23:22):
two cents. If you are so concerned, make sure your
page is on private, make sure the only people that
you've allowed in are friends that you know and can verify,
and then share too your little hearts content.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So you're you're pretty open on your Insta and you've
got a lot. You've got what about one hundred and
fifty thousand followers, and you post.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't share as much anymore, but when they were little,
I absolutely used to share my.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Kids and you never blurred out their faces or anything.
I see that sometimes some particularly high profile people going, oh,
look here, I'm with my daughter at the zoo and
they've put like an a emoji over their face, and
you're what's the what's the point?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I would just not post.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You're just going to look at me. I took my
kid to the zoo on my great mum.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You're ruining a good photo. Either send it in a
family group chat or to your friends, or don't post
it if you're so concerned about them having a digital footprint.
I wouldn't be putting the photo online period, because you
putting an emoji on that kid's face. Guess what, there's
that much technology these days. They can just screenshot the
photo and take the emoji off. Yeah, so if you're
really concerned, just don't post it at all.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
The only thing I ever took off because I kiss
posted a video of Henry and Oscar my two sons
the other week, and I was fine with that. The
only thing I did take out I didn't put their
school uniforms. Yes, I don't do that either, with what
school they go to. I don't know what I've just
I just see people doing that, blurring up the school
logo on the thing. I don't even know why I
did it. If someone really wants to find out what
(24:48):
school Henry and Oscar go to, it's not going to
be that difficult. I've got no money. By the way, do.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Not don't keep that no ransom that waid.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I'll go full mill Gibson. I'll just go on TV going.
You're not going to see a cent.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Look. I think the thing is there's all this fear
bongering around online, and I know it's legit, and there's
horrible people that live in the world, but there's horrible
people that live outside of screens as well. You know,
if you think that way and you're that negatively mindset,
then parenting is going to be a terrifying ride for you.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
You can't wrap them in cotton wool, even digital cotton wool.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, but each to their own. Like what I said,
if this mum is concerned, put your thing on private,
make sure there's you've only got forty followers and you
know all of them, and then that's it.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
So we're going to say stress less, babe, Just.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Post them stress less and if it makes you feel better,
don't post them at all.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Just don't post the many they're annoying. The other issue,
because that's you know how your kids are really special?
A little billy he's eating his first peas.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Issue.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Dog people are worse. They're dogs, little snook. Shut up,
speaking of little monsters. If you want to take all
your little monster friends along, we'in a whole row of
Lady Garga tickets. We've got them to win on Kiss.
The winning starts next and we will see you next
week Saturday, eight am.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Have a good one
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